Medical Advisory Board

Reviewed by specialists across every system.

Our board reviews protocols and the source library against current clinical evidence. Dr. Axe AI grounds its answers in that reviewed library and shows its sources.

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Josh Axe
Founder and chair of the review

Josh Axe

DC, DNM, CNS

Clinical nutrition, functional medicine and herbal medicine

He founded DrAxe.com and opened a functional medicine center in Nashville in 2008. His books include Eat Dirt, Keto Diet and Ancient Remedies.

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Meet the board

  • Uma Naidoo

    Uma Naidoo

    MD

    Nutritional psychiatry, mental health and culinary medicine; Harvard Medical School faculty

    She directs Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. She wrote This Is Your Brain on Food.

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  • Leigh Erin Connealy

    Leigh Erin Connealy

    MD

    Integrative cancer care and family medicine

    She is medical director of the Cancer Center for Healing and Center for New Medicine. Her books include The Cancer Revolution and Be Perfectly Healthy.

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  • Ethan Kellum

    Ethan Kellum

    MD

    Regenerative medicine, orthopedic surgery and sports medicine

    He serves as a team physician for the Tennessee Titans and USA Basketball. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the Medical College of Georgia.

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  • Daniel Amen

    Daniel Amen

    MD

    Brain health, adult and child psychiatry, and neuroimaging

    He founded Amen Clinics and serves as its CEO. His books include Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and The End of Mental Illness.

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  • Alejandro Junger

    Alejandro Junger

    MD

    Internal medicine, cardiology, and gut health

    He founded the Clean Program after training in internal medicine at NYU and Lenox Hill Hospital. He wrote Clean, Clean Gut and Clean Eats.

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  • Taz Bhatia

    Taz Bhatia

    MD

    Women's health, hormone health and integrative medicine

    She founded her integrative medicine practice in Atlanta in 2009. Her books include The Hormone Shift and Super Woman Rx.

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  • Jill Carnahan

    Jill Carnahan

    MD, ABIHM, ABoIM, IFMCP

    Functional medicine, complex chronic illness and environmental health

    She is medical director of Flatiron Functional Medicine. She wrote Unexpected: Finding Resilience through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith.

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  • James B. LaValle

    James B. LaValle

    RPh, CCN

    Clinical pharmacy, metabolic health, peptides and longevity

    He founded Metabolic Code Enterprises and serves as chief science officer at Life Time MIORA. He wrote Cracking the Metabolic Code.

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  • Anna Cabeca

    Anna Cabeca

    DO, FACOG

    Triple-board-certified OB-GYN; menopause, hormone health and integrative medicine

    She completed her gynecology and obstetrics residency at Emory University. She earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree at Nova Southeastern University.

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  • Staci Whitman

    Staci Whitman

    DMD, IFMCP

    Board-certified pediatric dentistry, functional dentistry, oral-systemic health and airway health

    She co-founded the Institute for Functional Dentistry and founded Bloom + Brighten. She earned her dental degree at Tufts University and completed pediatric dentistry training at Oregon Health & Science University.

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  • Deanna Minich

    Deanna Minich

    PhD, MS, CNS, FACN, FMCP

    Nutrition science, functional medicine, phytonutrients and metabolic detoxification

    She earned her doctorate in medical sciences at the University of Groningen. She founded the Certified Food & Spirit Practitioner Program.

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